Friday of the 5th week of Eastertide

First reading

Acts 15:22-31

The apostles and elders decided to choose delegates to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; the whole church concurred with this. They chose Judas known as Barsabbas and Silas, both leading men in the brotherhood, and gave them this letter to take with them:‘The apostles and elders, your brothers, send greetings to the brothers of pagan birth in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia. We hear that some of our members have disturbed you with their demands and have unsettled your minds. They acted without any authority from us; and so we have decided unanimously to elect delegates and to send them to you with Barnabas and Paul, men we highly respect who have dedicated their lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accordingly we are sending you Judas and Silas, who will confirm by word of mouth what we have written in this letter. It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and by ourselves not to saddle you with any burden beyond these essentials: you are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols; from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from fornication. Avoid these, and you will do what is right. Farewell.’The party left and went down to Antioch, where they summoned the whole community and delivered the letter. The community read it and were delighted with the encouragement it gave them.

Psalm or canticle

Psalm 56:8-12

The Grail translation of the Psalms may not appear on the Web or in RSS feeds. The downloadable versions of Universalis do contain these psalms.

Gospel

John 15:12-17

Jesus said to his disciples:‘This is my commandment:love one another,as I have loved you.A man can have no greater lovethan to lay down his life for his friends.You are my friends,if you do what I command you.I shall not call you servants any more,because a servant does not knowhis master’s business;I call you friends,because I have made known to youeverything I have learnt from my Father.You did not choose me:no, I chose you;and I commissioned youto go out and to bear fruit,fruit that will last;and then the Father will give youanything you ask him in my name.What I command you is to love one another.’

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